Girard Miller

Girard Miller is one of the nations most widely read authorities on public finance and retirement systems. His weekly columns in Governing magazine educate and inform thousands of public finance professionals. He is a senior strategist at the PFM Group working as a retirement plan design and management consultant. In 2008 he was a voting member of the Governmental Accounting Standards Board. Previously, Girard was the president of the Janus mutual funds and was Chief Operating Officer of Janus Capital Group, Inc., a global investment company with $170 billion of assets under management. Prior to that, he was the president and chief executive officer of the ICMA Retirement Corporation for ten years after heading Fidelity Investments public funds group. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) and a past fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration.